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"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event."

Heinz R. Pagels, American Physicist

Animals, May, Stars

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"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event."

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